Anthony Rushe

Anthony Rushe D.D. (died 1 April 1577) was a Canon of Windsor from 1566 to 1577^[1] and Dean of Chichester from 1570 to 1577.

He was a scholar at The King's School, Canterbury and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford where he graduated BA in 1554. He was awarded MA in 1558 from Cambridge.

He was appointed:

• Master of The King's School, Canterbury 1561
• Chaplain to Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex
• Rector of Woodham Walter, Essex 1565
• Rector of Brightling, Sussex 1565 - 1569
• Rector of Calverton, Buckinghamshire 1566
• Chaplain to Queen Elizabeth I
• Rector of Osgarwick, Kent 1568
• Canon of Canterbury Cathedral 1568
• Rector of St Olave's Church, Southwark 1569
• Dean of Chichester 1570 - 1577

He was appointed to the fourth stall in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle in 1566 and held this until he died in 1577. He was buried in the chapel.